Our last day on Anafi. I organised late check out so we could visit the ‘secret’ beach for the last time, pack and have some sleep before walking down to the ferry for 1am. I’ll miss our apartment with one of the most stunning views.
Picking up apples on the lawn so we can mow the lawn (maybe) a last time before winter.
All the apples go in the bush at the back of the garden where animals hopefully will eat some and the rest will most likely become a big pulp of natural cider swamp.
We walked to the top tip of the town, Hora where we are staying. We had heard that when it is full moon (tonight) as the sun sets the moon rises so we wanted to see this. It was really windy which had caused gorgeous waves on our secret beach in the day but we waited and waited, my feet getting colder and colder….finally we noticed the moon actually rose somewhere else behind hills and clouds and was a huge anticlimax but the views were amazing and we had persevered! We commiserated with gyros and beer. The tip of that mountain is where we climbed to the monastery the other day.
Busy but great day at work with favourite colleagues. Love my job and still find it challenging and rewarding.
After work hurried home on the bike, so we could head up to our summerhouse.
Finding the garden looking stunning in autumn colours and seeing that this little flower planted in the summer, still illuminating with strength and beauty. Aahh.
We rode the moped we’d hired across the island to a monastery where we visited the nun and her monastery and she gave us the greek version of Turkish delight. We played with the cutest friendliest kittens, then walked to the top of the mountain to visit another monastery. The views of the ocean and vast rocky mountain were stunning.
Inviting nature inside and feeling immediate stress relief.
(Capaldi, C.A., et al., International Journal of Wellbeing, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2015). The biophilia hypothesis argues that since our ancestors evolved in wild settings and relied on the environment for survival, we have an innate drive to connect with nature. The stress reduction hypothesis posits that spending time in nature triggers a physiological response that lowers stress levels. A third idea, attention restoration theory, holds that nature replenishes one’s cognitive resources, restoring the ability to concentrate and pay attention.
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